Holiday Running Streak (Read 2691 times)

RandyDandy

posted: 12/19/2012 at 11:03 PM

You guys are pretty motivating. Back in my competitive days I think I went over 3 months running at least 10 miles a day (needless to say I didn't have much of a life then)...coming back from an injury now, but I think daily persistence is the best way to stay motivated, even if it's just a mile or two a day

My running is getting pathetic-er and pathetic-er I was on the treadmill for about 7 minutes actually doing the jogging motion before I even noticed the treadmill was at 2.0 . How the hell does one run at 2.0, that is barely walking. I bumped it up to a whopping 4.0 to finish out my mile.

I think though it is finally moving out of my lungs. It has been torrential rains with 25 mph winds in the upper 30's so I have been avoiding outside with my cold, but it might be time. Either that or I should just run backwards on the TM

I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets

"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7

I was fighting with the TM this morning. The program I picked seemed to consist of building up from 2.5 to 4 mph over 30 minutes. I kept kicking it up to 6 or 8, then after a minute it would bring me back to 4. I just kept hitting random buttons to see where they took me. One was 15% grade. Fun.

Lol, sounds like me, but after an hour of overdoing it, I set it back to default and kept it pretty close to that.

--- I still can't believe LedLincoln does not have the 'running streak' widget on there. Did I miss you discussing somewhere in this long thread what your streak is? Looking at your solid-color chart makes me curious just how far that goes back...

Lol, sounds like me, but after an hour of overdoing it, I set it back to default and kept it pretty close to that.

--- I still can't believe LedLincoln does not have the 'running streak' widget on there. Did I miss you discussing somewhere in this long thread what your streak is? Looking at your solid-color chart makes me curious just how far that goes back...

It doesn't go all that far back; just a bit before SeanV2 started this thread. I haven't been that interested in streaking until now, but it seems to be doing me a lot of good. Starting to do some doubles, too. I'm hoping that if I can keep racking up miles, I'll be in good shape for my marathon in May.

I just set my longest streak. (It is not that long. :-) Would be longer but caught a 24-hour bug about 2 weeks ago that knocked me down for a day. (Rare for me, I hardly ever get sick). Honestly I could have kicked out a mile if needed, but since the streak was so short, I let it drop. New goal is to roll my current streak all the way through 2013 with at least 2 miles a day.

I love running on 12/24 and 12/25 because: 1) No one else seems to be out there running, and 2) I get to wear a christmas hat to keep my melon warm while I am running. :-)

The snow running didn't happen. Blizzard weather too vile, even for me. Saved by the treadmill.

Tonight I may do some running/sliding on the ice. Remains to be seen.

Only flurries here so far. When I did my run this evening it was 50F. High winds and rain though (no treadmill). 32 now.

Tomorrow will be an adventure that I look forward to.

"When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter, either. Then willpower will be no problem." Emil Zatopek